J. H. Barnes, postmaster at Hooker, died Sunday and was buried in the Oberlin Cemetery Monday with Grand Army honors. Mr. Barnes had been for some years suffering from a tumor in the left side caused by being hit over the head by a belt breaking in a saw mill in 1881. So it was not called upon suddenly to set his house in order and go the way of all the earth. His widow is a sister of "Wild Bill Hickok" so well known to early Kansans. He was a member of the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry.
J. H. Barnes, postmaster at Hooker, died Sunday and was buried in the Oberlin Cemetery Monday with Grand Army honors. Mr. Barnes had been for some years suffering from a tumor in the left side caused by being hit over the head by a belt breaking in a saw mill in 1881. So it was not called upon suddenly to set his house in order and go the way of all the earth. His widow is a sister of "Wild Bill Hickok" so well known to early Kansans. He was a member of the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry.
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